Ginalloa is a genus of parasitic

Parasitic plant

A parasitic plant is one that derives some or all of its sustenance from another plant. About 4,100 species in approximately 19 families of flowering plants are known. Parasitic plants have a modified root, the haustorium, that penetrates the host plant and connects to the xylem, phloem, or...

 Mistletoe

Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemi-parasitic plants in several families in the order Santalales. The plants in question grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub.-Mistletoe in the genus Viscum:...

s found in southern and south-eastern Asia. The various species are found in the Andaman Islands

Andaman Islands

The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...

 and Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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, the Philippines

Philippines

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, Malaysia, the island of Borneo

Borneo

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, the island of Java

Java

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 and Papua province in Indonesia

Indonesia

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, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

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, including the Bismarck Archipelago

Bismarck Archipelago

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, Myanmar

Myanmar

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, Laos

Laos

Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...

 and Thailand

Thailand

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. The genus belongs to the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Santalaceae (as this includes Viscaceae). Ginalloa arnottiana, described by Pieter Willem Korthals

Pieter Willem Korthals

Pieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836....

 in 1839, is the type-species.

Selected species

Ginalloa andamanica  Kurz     Ginalloa applanata  Danser     Ginalloa arnottiana  Korth.     Ginalloa beccariana  Tiegh.     Ginalloa cumingiana  Benth. & Hook.f.     Ginalloa falcata  Danser     Ginalloa flagellaris  Barlow     Ginalloa helferi  Kurz     Ginalloa lanceolata  C.B.Rob.

Ginalloa laosensis  Lecomte Ginalloa linearis  Danser Ginalloa nuda  Danser Ginalloa ovata  Danser Ginalloa platyphylla  Merr. Ginalloa siamica  Craib Ginalloa spathulifolia  Oliv. Ginalloa tenuifolia  Tiegh. Ginalloa zollingerii  Tiegh.

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External links

• Specimen detail for Ginalloa ovata from the New York Botanical Garden
  New York Botanical Garden
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  .   (Note: a link to a jpg image of the specimen can be found at the very bottom of the page)